British Actress Quotes

There is no more West. We are the West. So we've got to take care of what we have.

I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment.... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

Lynda Bellingham

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea—one swims where one wants.

To me good health is more than just exercise and diet. It's really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.

Angela Lansbury

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

Me and my brother used to spend a lot of time at music festivals, running away from skinheads. Then my brother became a skinhead... I used to get excruciatingly, mind-numbingly dull guitar lessons from my father: tonic, subdominant, dominant. Yeah, but how do I play it? Tonic, subdominant, mediant. This is a seventh. Great, how do I play it?

Sienna Guillory

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

Miranda Richardson

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It's then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

Kate Beckinsale

He had great ideas upon the importance of a regular and almost daily visit to the dentist. He himself went to a dentist as he would have gone to a hairdresser's, and he insisted that all the little girls he knew should go too.

It really is strange the way I work for success but when I get there cannot appreciate it. I enjoy the road to success and the struggle — even when it gets hard. But when I achieve my goal, I feel suddenly and totally stressed. Only in retrospect can I begin to enjoy the moment and admit just how great it was.

Sarah Brightman

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

Elizabeth Taylor

It was a strange life, I suppose, but it was the only one I've ever known. What is a normal childhood anyway?

Life, if you're fat, is a minefield—you have to pick your way, otherwise you blow up.

Miriam Margolyes

Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.

There is definitely a fuck-you quality to the characters I choose.

Keira Knightley

I have a rare intolerance to herbs which means I can only drink fermented liquids, such as gin.

We weren't happy. It was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that. Everyone seemed to be having fun, but they were so taking many drugs they wouldn't know it anyway.

Charlotte Rampling

We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.

Virginia McKenna

I was mistaken for a prostitute once in the last war. When a GI asked me what I charged, I said, 'Well, dear, what do your mother and sisters normally ask for?'

We had so little to eat, we were freezing all the time, but the sheer joy of being able to act fed our souls.

Hana Maria Pravda

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

Eva Le Gallienne

Good Lord. I'd be lying if I said I'd never Googled myself, but it honestly never occurred to me to add 'naked' to my search criteria. Sure enough, there have been five nude 'episodes'. And I know this is self-destructive but somehow I find myself on a 'nudescenes' forum where linus22 is arguing that I have odd-shaped nipples. Do I? Oh God! That thought never occurred to me! One more for the self-esteem list.